[2][3] In 1835, the first volume of H. C. Watson's New Botanist's Guide was published, containing substantial contributions from Worsley, namely a list of flowering plants in the Bristol area.
[4] This brought greater attention to her work and in 1839 she published her Catalogue of Plants, found in the Neighbourhood of Newbury, which ran to thirty-one pages and included the first records in Berkshire of over sixty species.
She soon joined the Botanical Society of London and actively contributed to its specimen exchanges.
They had been friends for several years, with Russell accompanying Worsley on plant gathering expeditions and collecting some specimens for her.
She left her drawings to the British Museum (Natural History), where they are still kept, and her herbarium and collection of birds' eggs to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.